Scanning with Image Capture eating hard drive space

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Scanning with Image Capture eating hard drive space

This has been a reoccuring problem for me. If I scan around 30mb of images to an external drive, my hard disk ends up with a full message. I end up having to use a cashe cleaner to free the space up again. I've figured out that with the 8 GB of free space on my internal disk, if I scan around 7-8 images (around 15mb) it says I have filled the disk.

I'd appreciate any help I can get on this. It's a pain in the butt to have to keep clearing space only to have it filled again one image later.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 17"

Posted on Aug 15, 2013 8:37 PM

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greg sahli

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Aug 16, 2013 8:31 AM in response to Murrtallica

my guess is that you need at least 3 times as much free space on your internal drive as you have now. OS X needs temporary space on that drive for every file move copy, scan, etc it does. you'll find recommendations of 10-20 percent of drive total space here.

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Murrtallica Author

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Aug 16, 2013 10:14 AM in response to greg sahli

I cleaned about 80GB of stuff of my drive last night, so we will see if that clears up my problem. Thanks for the reply!

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